{"id":12905,"date":"2008-10-13T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/10\/smoked-j.html"},"modified":"2008-10-13T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T19:42:12","slug":"smoked_j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/smoked_j\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoked &quot;J&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Okay, this has nothing to do with anything, really, but you may find it amusing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting Apple&#8217;s next batch of MacBook Pros (my current 17&quot; is nearly 2 years old), and tomorrow they&#8217;re due to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-10063765-37.html?tag=nl.e703\">announce new hardware<\/a>.&#160; In particular I&#8217;ve been awaiting the next batch of GPUs, and I&#8217;m eager to see whether they go farther with multi-touch technology.&#160; (For CS4 we worked with Apple to enable the new gestures on MacBook Pro\/Air models to let you zoom, pan, and rotate images in Photoshop and Bridge, and I can&#8217;t show off this support with my current rig.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Anyway, I awoke this morning to discover that the letter &quot;J&quot; (aka the thing I now have to keep on a text file for copy and paste) had stopped working.&#160; No warning, no other affected keys&#8211;and no J (kind of a big deal for me, for obvious reasons).&#160; I&#8217;ve had keys occasionally get stuck in the past, but in this case lifting the key and cleaning underneath had no effect.&#160; In fact, the key popped off entirely, leaving me with this somewhat disconcerting sight of a glowing stump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Now I have to explain to my boss that <em>no, really,<\/em> it&#8217;s <em>completely coincidental<\/em> that my machine broke right before the new ones are announced&#8211;<em>I swear.&#160; <\/em>(Mm, yeah, good luck with that&#8230;)   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this has nothing to do with anything, really, but you may find it amusing. &#160; I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting Apple&#8217;s next batch of MacBook Pros (my current 17&quot; is nearly 2 years old), and tomorrow they&#8217;re due to announce new hardware.&#160; In particular I&#8217;ve been awaiting the next batch of GPUs, and I&#8217;m eager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}